Motivational Quotes

Art

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

- Nickolas Muray

Best Quotes about Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

43.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren